Archive for April, 2011

Henry Louis "Lou" Gehrig (June 19, 1903 – June 2, 1941), was a Major League Baseball first baseman. He played his 17-year baseball career entirely with the New York Yankees (1923-1939). His career was cut short by ALS, now commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Gehrig holds the record for most career gland slams at 23 total. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939. In 1941 Lou Gehrig died of the neuromuscular disease at the age of 37. He was voted the greatest first baseman of all time in 1969 by the Baseball Writer’s Association.

Daniel (Michael Blake) Day-Lewis is an English actor with both British and
Irish citizenship. His portrayals of Christy Brown in My Left Foot (1989) and
Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood (2007) won Academy and BAFTA
Awards for Best Actor, and Screen Actors Guild as well as Golden Globe
Awards for There Will Be Blood. His role as Bill “The Butcher”Cutting inGangs of New York (2002) earned Lewis the BAFT Award and a Screen
Actors Guild Award. He is known to remain completely in character for the
duration of a film shoot.